Old Harbor "Sisters of Circumstance"

Five women answer an ad to become brides for the men of Old Harbor, Alaska. Each from a different place, all with different stories to tell, they become as close as sisters in an adventure none of them could have imagined. They all find themselves married to strangers. Strangers with secrets. These women will do all they can to turn their lives around, to live happily ever after. One will not. More

Old Harbor, Alaska is as small as it is remote. Surrounded by wilderness miraculously still untouched by man, its beauty is rivaled only by the expansive sky above. On cloudless nights, the Northern Lights give way to countless stars so unimaginable one might almost think it is Heaven.What Old Harbor boasts in scenic wonder, lacks, however, in companionship. The hardworking men who keep the town afloat are as adrift in their own hearts as the stars in the vast sky under which they sleep. When the church minister places an ad seeking wives for the men of the town, his actions will change the lives of many people—forever.In New York, Allie Davis has one great fear: that she will be alone for the rest of her life. Following the death of her mother, her world has been reduced to just herself despite the millions of people just outside her door.Not far away, Rachel Franklin wants a second chance at life, something she can’t imagine happening in New York where so much emotional baggage remains. She needs a change. She needs out. And she’s willing to risk everything.Allie, Rachel and three other women answer the most unlikely of ads, and eventually find themselves in a place as foreign to them as another world. More than the men they travel across the continent to meet, these women will find something equally important……each other. They will discover new friends, new bonds, new relationships they never before understood. They will discover sisters they never had. And these women, the Old Harbor Sisters of Circumstance, will be put to the ultimate test of friendship, love, and even life.

Author P.J. Rhea is a southern preacher’s wife. Married for thirty-eight years, she and her husband, Mike, live in her Tennessee childhood home. There, she is surrounded by the memories and dreams of her youth in the very place where she’s watched her children and grandchildren grow. And there, amid the sweet, summer breezes over the fertile land between the Duck and Piney Rivers, P.J. Rhea listened to her heart and the echoes of history. It was from those enchanting melodies that ideas sprang forth which would become Old Harbor, Sisters of Circumstance. A mother of three, a grandmother of six, and a friend to many, Rhea’s knack for telling stories comes through in this, her first novel.